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It is widely known that French cultural policies in the colonies were designed to make the natives pass as French. The truth of the matter is that those policies hampered their cultural emancipation. As much as there was a desire for assimilation, there was also much apprehension that the educated natives might turn the knowledge acquired in schools against their tutors. To prevent the inevitable, policies in favour of indigenising the curricula were incepted, allegedly to amend the failure of the policy of direct assimilation, when in fact their inception represented the means by which, it was hoped, the cultural emancipation of the natives and their claims for equal rights – and eventually for self-determination – would be halted. Thus, two cultural experiments characterise the cultural policies adopted in French colonies; none of them was perfectly executed nor managed to avert the cultural alienation of the colonised.

At the beginning of this century, the officer's role is to serve his country and the values he believes in. He is also an actor determined to accomplish, together with the soldiers under his command, the mission entrusted to him in order to build a safer and more peaceful world. This framework demands the officer to be in the same time a soldier, citizen, leader, state servant, and promoter of peace. Regarding the relationship between the state of peace and war, we learn from history lessons that nowadays the world's social relationships are complex and unpredictable. However, these relationships are enhanced by the reduction of the available time to decide and act. The technological advances in computer science, mass media and communication represent the main reason for these changes.Keywords: new world order; new risks; multiform crises; the will to self-improve; operational integration.